tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 20 03:59:09 2001
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Re: the honour discussion
- From: "Rohan Fenwick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: the honour discussion
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:58:56
charghwI', I don't profess to know everything about Klingon. No-one does.
But regarding your statement about "cause and effect", how we can't
definitely state the cause by just observing the effect: I know. You *ARE*
right. But we are just hypothesising - not saying "this is DEFINITELY what's
going on". We can't do that until Dr Okrand says that this IS what's
happening. I can't speak for voragh - who, by the way, has done an excellent
job with the canon sources - but I am just trying to understand the contexts
of both words. There is little point in having two completely
interchangeable words for one concept. Even in English, two words are very
rarely used interchangeably: look at "rabbit" and "bunny". Maybe there is
additional emotive content attached to one or the other of these words. Or
maybe they *DO* mean different aspects of honour. My point is, I only said
"seems". I didn't say "is". However, I completely understand your point, and
I agree with it wholeheartedly. I just think there was a bit of a
miscommunication. Thanks for the point you made - it's very important also
regarding the discussion of making new words, in that nothing is real
Klingon until Maltz tells Dr Okrand that it is.
Qapla' 'ej Satlho'
ro'Han
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